Last Sunday – Divine
Mercy Sunday – brought to mind the declaration of Thomas as he was invited to
put his hand into the wound made by the soldiers lance: ‘my Lord and my God’. The Gospel from Luke (24) on
the Third Sunday of Easter is also one that draws us to contemplate the Sacred
Heart.
And it happened that,
while he was with them at table, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it,
and gave it to them. With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but
he vanished from their sight. Then they said to each other, “Were not our
hearts burning within us while he spoke to us on the way and opened the
Scriptures to us?” So they set out at once and returned to Jerusalem where they
found gathered together the eleven and those with them who were saying, “The
Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon!” Then the two recounted what had taken place on the way and how
he was made known to them in the breaking of bread.
In the clearest
possible way the gospel tells us that the Eucharist is a profound event: for it
is when we receive the bread broken for us, we encounter Christ. Jesus wants our hearts to
burn within us. The Eucharist and the Sacred Heart have
long been closely associated, and this gospel helps us to understand why.
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